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Edward Luce

The great Trump riddle on China

Nothing with the president’s policy on the Asian nation is predictable. Does he care about Taiwan? Does he want to decouple from Beijing? Let’s toss a coin.

Smart money says that Donald Trump’s upside is that you know where he stands. That may be true on his love of grift and loathing of immigrants and trade deficits.

When it comes to Trump and China, however, economists should drop their caveat about “all things being equal”.

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Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.

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